DuckDuckGo has now extended the fraud protection in its privacy-centric browser to shield users from even more scams — without subjecting your browsing to additional tracking. Yay! In addition to blocking phishing sites, malware, and…
AI’s rapidly expanding capabilities include convincing impersonations—that is, audio and video that sounds and looks like you. Sometimes these deepfakes can be harmless, part of a joke or meme that involves a celebrity, politician, or…
AT&T lost information on millions of its U.S. customers last year—not just account numbers, but full names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, birth dates, and even social security numbers. But that wasn’t the end…
Earlier this week, major news appeared to break—the discovery of 16 billion login records, available as part of massive datasets, tied to services like Apple, Google, Facebook, and GitHub. But unlike many other findings of…
Smartening up your home can make your life so much easier. Smart bulbs are a great start, especially if you’re into setting the mood with RGB lighting, but you could also go with smart light…
It’s hot out, and there’s a vacation vibe all around, so we’re aiming to spend more time outdoors. Still, if you need to have a bit of a soundtrack to your outdoor activities, you should…
I don’t use a Windows Copilot+ PC as a daily driver, though I have several in my office. But there’s one absolutely critical Copilot+ feature that forces me to swap out my current laptop, attach…
Apple users can be a pretty loyal bunch, often sticking to Apple-branded hardware and apps while giving third-party alternatives the cold shoulder. But sometimes it’s worth looking outside the walled garden. For example, Google Chrome…
Hey, everyone! Today I’m going to show you how to set apps to not load on startup in Windows. App developers usually program their apps to load and open by default when you boot into…
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